Indian River Crime Laboratory

FORT PIERCE - The doorway of the Indian River Crime Lab locatd at the Indian River State College leads to savious sientists, investigators and a series of high, and low tech investigative tools to help aid in the processing of evidence.

FORT PIERCE - Indian River Crime Lab criminalist Earl Ritzline examines an evidence sample. before photographing it for a computer.

FORT PIERCE - Evidence samples are more easily seen using using an alternate lighting source inside the Indian River Crime Lab.

FORT PIERCE - Indian River Crime Lab criminalist Earl Ritzline photographs an evidence sample using a digital camera for analysis.

FORT PIERCE - Indian River Crime Lab criminalist Earl Ritzline examines an evidence sample. before photographing it for a computer.

FORT PIERCE - A robotic system is used to extract DNA from samples inside the offices of the Indian River Crime Lab by criminalist Earl Ritzline.

FORT PIERCE - A DNA profile is shown on an Indian River Crime Lab computer after a robotic system extracted and analyzed material from a test sample.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, checks a shell casing using an integrated ballistics identification system, a computer video system that uses a microscope to examine bullets and casings for markings and using a database for comparison.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, uses a microscope to examine bullets and casings for markings. Mark Chapman, cq

FORT PIERCE - A computer display allows two casings to be compared under a microscope, allowing for the images to overlap for comparison at the Indian River Crime Laboratory.

FORT PIERCE - Using an ink pad and special paper, Mark Chapman, a Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, compares a from a shoe along side a imprint from another to show how they can compare evidence.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, loads a 44 caliber revolver for a ballistics test.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, fires a 44 caliber revolver into a water tank for a ballistics test.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, raises the steel lid of a water tank used for test firing firearms for ballistics test.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, recovers a 44 caliber revolver into a water tank for a ballistics test.

FORT PIERCE - Mark Chapman, Criminalist at the Indian River Crime Laboratory, recovers a 44 caliber hollow point bullet shot into a water tank for a ballistics test.

FORT PIERCE - St. Lucie County Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Adam Goodner, top left, meets with detectives, clockwise from center, Ed LeBeau, Fred Wilson, John Parow and Sindi Garnes (not pictured) as they compare notes to update a case on a missing woman from back in 1984. The newly formed group meets once a week at the St.Lucie County Sheriff's Office on Midway Road to discuss the cases.